Rs 50,000 additional benefit to senior citizens for investment in the medical claim. A standard deduction of additional Rs 40,000 for salaried employees. This move will benefit 2.5 crore taxpayers. No changes in the structure of income tax of individuals.

Rs 7000 crore will be the revenue foregone for the reduced corporate tax on MSMEs.

I propose to extend the benefit of the reduced corporate rate of 25% for companies with a reported turnover of up to Rs 250 crore.

100% tax deduction for the first five years to companies registered as farmer producer companies with a turnover of Rs. 100 crore and above.

41% more returns were filed this year, which shows that more people have joined the tax net.

Demonetisation was received by honest taxpayers as ‘Imaandaari ka Utsav’.

Revised fiscal deficit estimate for 2017-18 is 3.5% of GDP, the fiscal deficit of 3.3% expected for 2018-19.

Automatic revision of MPs’ emoluments every five years, indexed to inflation.

The government insurance companies to be merged into a single entity, and subsequently listed in the stock exchange, as part of the disinvestment programme.

The government will assign every enterprise in India a unique ID on the lines of Aadhaar. The government has identified 372 basic business reform actions. Each state will take up these reforms.

We will explore the use of blockchain.

Rs 5.97 lakh crore allocated for infrastructure spending in India.

5 lakh WiFi hotspots to be set up in rural areas to provide easy Internet access.

Redevelopment of 600 major railway stations has been taken up; Mumbai transport system is being expanded; the suburban network of 160 km planned for Bengaluru.

The government proposes to revamp the system of sanctioning of loans to SMEs. The information required for sanctioning the loan will be linked with GSTN and all required information can be fetched from GSTN Portal. It will help to grant the loans quickly and will help in reducing processing time.

UDAN will connect 56 unserved airports in India.

An institute is coming up at Vadodara to train people for the bullet train programme.

AMRUT programme will focus on the water supply to all households in 500 cities. Water supply contracts for 494 projects worth 19,428 core awarded.

Rs 1,48,528 crore is the capital expenditure for the Indian Railways for 2018-19… All trains to be progressively provided with WiFi, CCTV, and other state-of-the-art amenities.